Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-28
IN MEMORIAM.
The Death Of Captain W. s. white

So frequently are we called upon to make
q record of things, which, it seems, ought
never to have occurred, that at times we are
ready to be persuaded that this world has to
offer only disappointment, disaster and
death. Our entire city was startled yester-
day morning by the sad news of the death OF
Capt. W. S. White, who has long been
prominent factor in the affairs Of this city
and county.
Capt. W. S. White was born January 2nd,
1885. at Johustown, Pennsylvania, conse-
ouently was in his fifty third year. He was,
after his graduation, engaged as tutor
and teacher. He served three years in the
union army. Knowing and feeling that his
time had come, he had his will drawn up in
the presence of friends, and at 2
O'Clock yesterday. morning he was
married to susanna Sebastian by Judge
Thomas. His brother Oscar White reached
the city from his: southern home two days
before his death. His brother Norman P.
White, of Colorado, has been telegraphed
for.
OF Captain Whites life in this county
since the early settlement Of the county nc
words are called for. No encomiums which
we could offer would add to the value of that
record. Since the spring of ~ his aged and
widowed mother has lived with him, and
most tender and loving son he has proved.
For years the estimable lady, whom he in
the hours of pain and dissolution, gave his
name and property, had been a daughter in
the truest sense to the aged mother who now
also lies at deaths door. This lady had long
since won his hearts sincerest love and
would have in the course of few weeks be-
come his bride and the mis-
tress of his new home. Fearing
that the will which he had made
in her favor might be disputed and to set at
rest any and all questions touching the dis
posal of his valuable properties, he, as we
stated, was married to her in the same hour
that he died. His sufferings from infiamma-
ton of the bowels were very great.
The funeral services and burial will be
from his late home on North Market, on
Sunday evening at 4 O'Clock, to which the
friends are invited.
And now, like Gods great pity, the same
blue sky still hangs over US this morning,
but of our number, one is missing. The
same great life giving orb looks kindly down
upon the restless multitude who throng our
ways, but the place Of a well known form
and familiar face is vacant. The arch enemy
of life triumphs in another victim, and q
warm heart whose ambitions were pure, and
whose loves and devotions were little under
stood, has ceased its pulsati The tint OF
the autumn leaf is but natures sign
of woe, its fall a tragedy.
1t was but the other day that we spoke
of new home up on Riverside, embowered
with apple blossoms built by our old friend
Captain White. Its foundations were laid
that its roof and walls might protect frai
and aged mother and render her last earthly
days bright ones. We suggested then that
the redolence of those apple blossoms by thai
new home might yet intermingle with the
perfume of orange blossoms. Our friend, il
our next meeting smilingly stated that the
frosts of his head, mayhap, were too MINER
GUS for such a happy consummation. Ant
now before the fruit of those blossoms could
mature, aye, before that home itself could b.
made ready for that aged mother and To-
that other loved one who was to be its sun
shine and sustaining spirit, he who in low
planned it all and happily hoped, lies beref
of life and all it promised; and, she who wa.
to him more than even mother, must nov
intertwine with her bridal flowers thu
shadows and weeds of widow.
The triumphs of life of toll ant
the realization ofhopes long de
ferred fall to ashes in the very houl
of their fruition. The hope of her lif'
has exhaled like morning dew audit delayed
spring time lies eutombed in the depths of {
cherries autumn. And, must the music o.
the notes thus united and the love OF thu
souls thus plighted cease now and the gentle
| flow of two lives end in that one sad fare
! we'll, the one life blotted out and the othel
left to shrink back upon ltselfa Such wa
not the philosophy or belief Of our now dumb
| friend He assented to the change, but only
such as that in which the night is followed b.
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brighter day. The green chaplets and am
brosial flowers of summer are lost in tn
death of winter, but all that fades again re
fiourishes. That which warmed the now col,
heart of our friend did not-can not die. Tn
angel whose loving fingers released the sou
of him who was with US but yesterday, live
when the morning stars sang together, an
was among those to greet and welcome hi
released spirit to those realms where love
and lives are immortal.
For him tears, pains and fears an
all this life's poorly requited tolls an
empty honors are past; and our brother
who has stood by our side in the sam
yoke, sustaining like burthens, whic
must ever be borne by those who nav
resolved on a life devoted to the interest {
the many, and which trials are little under
stood by those who only plod for self, told U
but few weeks since that he was happy i
his permanent release, and that the days an
years to come seemed to hold more OF sue
pleasures as enrich wisdom and that stir tt
heart, all relieved Of public obligations an
private cares; and that wherein the sense
would become more refined and joys woul
come without q cloy. May the Father {
Mercies will it thus; and in an endless da,
where the celestial voices of gifted spirit
beside crystal depths and mid lofty glorie
such as only can be comprehended by tt
capacities of the immortal, and measured b
the God of our being Himself, where the onl
labor is love, and the only ambition trutl